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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."
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"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."
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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
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"In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
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"Ozymandias'I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away."
History

"History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
Knowledge

"The soul's joy lies in doing."
Soul

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
Death

"All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
Mistake

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
Food

"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
Imagination

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."
Love

"War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men."
Society

"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."
Equality
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